Woman Dies and 2 People Injured at French Farmers’ Protest Barricade

Woman Dies and 2 People Injured at French Farmers’ Protest Barricade
Farmers block a highway during a demonstration near Beauvais, northern France, on Jan. 23, 2024. Matthieu Mirville/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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PARIS—Spreading demonstrations by French farmers against low wages and other grievances were hit by tragedy Tuesday when a woman was killed and her husband and daughter seriously injured in a traffic collision at a protest barricade.

A car plowed into straw bales that demonstrators had placed across a road, hitting the three people before it came to a stop against a tractor’s semi-trailer, prosecutor Olivier Mouysset said in a statement.